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Gut-directed hypnotherapy delivered by psychologists appears as effective in group or individual sessions, potentially offering a new treatment option for irritable bowel syndrome in primary and secondary care.

UMC Utrecht regularly organizes webinars on health-related topics. During these webinars, physicians and researchers tell about the latest developments and viewers are given the opportunity to ask questions.

A targeted online training program for general practitioners, combined with an information booklet for parents, led to fewer antibiotic prescriptions for children with respiratory tract infections, allowing unnecessary use of antibiotics to be reduced relatively easily.

‘More research is needed’ is a frequently used final sentence in scientific articles. But more - of the same - research is not always necessary. Nonetheless, this happens more often than we want.

On September 14, Prof. Carla van Gils gave her inaugural speech. Her drive: to detect cancer at an earlier stage to prevent that patients die from the disease, or to ensure that they require less severe treatment than if the cancer is detected at a later stage; in short, optimally using cancer screening.

On September 5, Annelien Bredenoord, professor of Ethics of Biomedical Innovation at the UMC Utrecht Julius Center gave the Els Borst Lecture of the Dutch Center for Ethics and Health in The Hague. The topic of the lecture: “New reproductive technology, new family constellations, new ethnical questions?”

The so-called PREFERABLE project is granted EUR 4 million by the European innovation program Horizon 2020. This project seeks to determine whether patients with metastatic breast cancer experience fewer side effects of their therapy and whether their quality of life improves if they remain physically active.